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Been distracted for whatever reason and haven't been keeping up with your NoSQL news? That's all right, we've got you covered. Here we've put together a list of this week's best NoSQL articles, news, links, and more!

New Releases This Week:

CodernityDB is an open-source, pure Python (no 3rd party dependency), fast (really fast check Speed if you don’t believe us), multiplatform, schema-less, NoSQL database. It has optional support for HTTP server version (CodernityDB-HTTP), and also Python client library (CodernityDB-PyClient) that aims to be 100% compatible with embedded version.

Key features:

Native Python database

Multiple indexes

Fast (more than 50 000 insert operations per second see Speed for details)

Embedded mode (default) and Server, with client library that aims to be 100% compatible with embedded one.

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Consensus Protocol These posts I came across give a great explanation on the shortcomings of 2-phase commit when it comes to failures and also of 3-phase commit, which handles well one type of failure (fail-stop).

Upcoming Webinars

This talk will introduce how to build your first Java application with MongoDB by walking you through how one can build a simple location-based application. The talk will cover the basics of MongoDB's document model, query language, aggregation framework and deployment architecture. New features, fixes and improvements in the latest release will also be covered.

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